Top 10 Movies that Make Men Cry [Warning: Reviews include some Spoilers]

The Spotless Minds ^ | 12-4-09 | Greg

[smokingfrog]

The era of the ‘Man’s Man’ is coming ever closer to ending. Soon it will be acceptable for all men to see a film and let it truly effect them emotionally. But that time isn’t upon us just yet. These are the top ten movies that not only make men cry, but it is deemed acceptable for them to do so.

10. The Wrestler
9. Saving Private Ryan
8. Braveheart
7. Field of Dreams
6. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
5. The Shawshank Redemption
4. Friday Night Lights
3. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
2. Good Will Hunting
1. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn

[sauropod]

I agree with Braveheart, but that’s the only one.

[Wyatt's Torch]

My guess is that was in the first 10 minutes, too. They could have made the entire movie from that little segment.

Yep. Mine too as I have seen it twice with my wife of almost 17 years. Absolutely fantastic movie.

[Tuxedo]

I second Marley & Me.

[Little Ray]

The Green Berets.
That’ll make a grown man cry...

[RJS1950]

Not a one of them came even close to making me tear up except for maybe the final cemetary scene in Saving Private Ryan. Several on the list left me a little nauseous. Now if you want to get me to choke up roll the commercial for the National Humane Society; I can’t stand to watch it anymore although it enrages me a bit more than bringing me to tears.

[bootless]

Immortal Beloved really was an underrated movie. Gary Oldman was brilliant. The “Ode to Joy” scene with the stars and the lake always thrills me.

Another puddle-up moment: In Memphis Belle, when Col. Harriman, played by David Straithairn, when challenged by the reporter, pulls out the letters from KIA airmen’s families, thanking him for his compassion.

[bootless]

I always choke up when the audience at the music festival joins in, singing Edelweiss. The foreshadowing of what’s to come, their love and regret for what was being destroyed by the Nazis... poignant and tragic. (Let’s work to NOT repeat that!)

[Lakeshark]

Not so sure about this list, pretty strange to cry at any of those movies IMHO.

I do remember wanting to stand up and yell "Shoot the b@stard!" as Clint is asking Scorpio if he knows how many times he had shot his gun at the end of Dirty Harry........

Does that count?

[bootless]

Ditto that.

(DUKE!! Nice to see you back!)

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

The movie you're thinking about was “Dirty Mary Crazy Larry” (1974). Peter Fonda was Larry and Mary was played by Susan George. She crashed the car. It's said that “Smokey And The Bandit” ripped of several stunts and characters from this movie.

[acad1228]

Yeah, yeah. We all cried at "Old Yeller" and "Where the Red Fern Grows". But I dare any man not to drop a tear or two when Rickey Schroeder begs Jon Voigt to get back up at the end of "The Champ".

[smokingfrog]

Susan George is an Arabian horse breeder now. She's still a good looking woman.

[GonzoGOP]

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial?

Dude they edited all the guns out of the movie. I do not count that as an "Acceptable" man's movie. Now Serenity, when Book buys the farm is definitely a get ya moment.

[MattinNJ]

Thanks-will watch this weekend.

[GonzoGOP]

I second the vote for “We Were Soldiers”.

Third, because it was real. You knew that somebody really didn't make it home for all those telegraphs. I had a friend who was a medic in Nam and wouldn't watch the movie. He said there were some things he didn't want to remember.

[OB1kNOb]

The Straight Story

Directed by David Lynch

The Straight Story is a 1999 film directed by David Lynch. It is based on the true story of Alvin Straight’s journey across Iowa and Wisconsin on a lawnmower. The film was edited and produced by Mary Sweeney, Lynch’s longtime partner and co-worker. She co-wrote the script with John E. Roach.

Plot
Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth) is an elderly World War II veteran who lives with his daughter Rose (Sissy Spacek), a kind woman with a mental disability. When he hears that his estranged brother Lyle (Harry Dean Stanton) has suffered a stroke, he makes up his mind to go visit him and hopefully make amends before he dies. But because Alvin’s legs and eyes are too impaired for him to receive a driving license, he hitches a trailer to his recently purchased thirty year-old John Deere Lawn tractor and sets off on the 240-mile journey from Laurens, Iowa to Mount Zion, Wisconsin.

The film follows the story of Alvin’s six-week journey across rural America, the people he meets, his impact on their lives, and theirs on his. It has been called a modern odyssey of a man dealing with his own mortality and mistakes and the lasting bonds of family.

Cast
Richard Farnsworth as Alvin Straight
Sissy Spacek as Rose Straight
Jane Galloway Heitz as Dorothy
Joseph Carpenter as Bud
Donald Wiegert as Sig
Ed Grennan as Pete
Jack Walsh as Apple
James Cada as Danny Riordan
Wiley Harker as Verlyn Heller
Kevin Farley as Harald Olsen
John P. Farley as Thorvald Olsen
Anastasia Webb as Crystal
Barbara E. Robertson as Deer Woman
John Lordan as Priest
Everett McGill as Tom
Harry Dean Stanton as Lyle Straight

[Tijeras_Slim]

We would have to include Blazing Saddles in that one, I think.

The campfire scene will make your eyes water.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Only a man could understand the emotion of playing catch with his old man, especially given the point where the relationship had broken down.

[mware]

How the heck are ya AX. Long time.

John Ford knew how to make me didn't he.

Might as well add, Wee Willie, Winkey when Victor McLaughlin was dying and Shirley Temple sang him Auld Lang Syne

5:50 on tape.

get your hankey ready.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGf3neqrn18

[Diana in Wisconsin]

We lost a nephew this past year; in his youth he spent a lot of time with us as he had a horrible drug-addled mother and a neglectful father.

I would’ve been seriously worried if the men in my family didn’t cry over that. :(